Define “die.” Dig still exists…

A workshop.

All those tools with dedicated reasons for existing. All those improvised tools that are highly specialized. All the scraps and leftovers saved for some unknown day in the future. The whole vibe is opportunity to create.

Stop trying to make a Michelle Obama presidency happen. She doesn’t want it to happen. She has agency and made her choice.

This seems more like an announcement for a wallpaper contest. Though that’s pretty much what an Xfce update should be. Keeping it basic.

If you want to do something bad and someone offers help it’s probably an FBI sting.

The voice of three generations.

This invites running the election over and over until the party already in power gets the results they want.

Because that would change the results. People would be able to change their votes. It could result in yet another things are off. It doesn’t resolve. It complicates.

This is not really an issue. Check a few things: Is the seal under the lid still in good condition? Does the pop-it emergency pressure release still move? Is the pressure tube that the weight fits on clear and unclogged? Is there a pressure gauge?

The seal, pop-it, weight and gauge for almost any model can be bought on Amazon or eBay for less than $15 as a set. So as long as the body is in good condition you can replace every other part for almost nothing compared to buying a new canner. An older gauge can be tested and calibrated at your local extension office.

Is the body in good shape? No dings, dents, warped bottom? Do not buy a cooker with any of these problems.

All the canners at second hand markets made it to the second hand market after being used and they didn’t explode.

It takes a ridiculous amount of effort to try and explode one old made in the last 60 years. Find the make and model. That will tell you when it was made and if there was a recall.

Stick with the name brands, Mirro, Presto, All-American.

I’ve included a lot of things to check for here to avoid this issue but I want to stress that it is almost impossible to blow up a pressure canner. I have four of them. I have followed canning groups for a long long time. I’ve seen exactly one explosion and that was because someone tried to open a canner with a failed lid lock before the pressure dropped. This resulted in the contents of the jars suddenly expanding and hitting the ceiling. Not the canner exploding, it was the food in the jars. And that was easily avoidable by just waiting.

I own four pressure canners. Only one was bought new. The rest were from yard sales and thrift stores. I’m not happy with the deals on the Mirros but they still do the job. I have no issues buying used cookers or canners.

I avoid all electric ones. Not for safety but lifespan. The electronics will fail. The more feature that have the faster they will fail. They have incredibly limited capacity. When they fail they are trash. You can’t repair them. A manual canner will last you a lifetime and if any part of than the body fails you can replace it for cheap.

Side note, All-American doesn’t have a seal. So you can ignore that.ake sure the screws move nicely. Be happy you found an extra expensive canner that will last forever.

Bonus material: canners and cookers are different. You can cook in a canner but can’t can in a cooker.

Bonus bonus: If you get an aluminum bodied canner and you use it for canning instead of cooking, you will start to see a thin black patina develop on the inside. Do not try to clean that out. It’s aluminum oxide, fine layer of sapphire that will protect the canner from the inside. The darkness is your friend.

OEMs only recently started offering 5+ years of security fixes. Two years was common until just 6 years ago. Apple got a lot of crap for not supporting older models but the truth is they supported longer than anyone else and only cut support when the hardware literally couldn’t take it. Yet everyone ignored that most android makers might not even release a single update much less more than the two years worth needed to cover a phone for a two year contract.

I don’t like saying that because I can’t stand apple devices. But it’s what happened. Then the EU started getting involved. They hated all this ewaste caused by people constantly upgrading. IT security people were speaking up too because phones were a complete risk with people using them for work but not getting updates that stopped them from being owned. It was getting bad for OEMs from multiple angles and they needed to act before the US government made them. And all those factors are the only reasons we are just now seeing all phones come with 5+ year plans.

As right to repair laws get integrated into new releases we will actually be able to take advantage of these 5+ year plans because we will be able to replace the batteries that are normally useless after three years.

I wish most phones had a battery saver option that would stop charge at 80% unless you manually overrode it each and every time you wanted to go over. This would dramatically cut down on the need to replace batteries.

But here is the rub. Even if you convince the majority logically that their phone is still good at year three they are going to upgrade at year two when the phone is paid off. The people that use phones as an identity and brand marker are still going to upgrade as fast as new devices come out.

And devices are going to continue to come out yearly. If you don’t ship a new flagship product each year then shareholders will revolt. There must always be something new for the customer. Technology moves fast. If you are an OEM not releasing then you are an OEM that isn’t keeping up.

All these forces of market, psychology, legal and repairability and more fight each other to create a situation where most people will upgrade in two years or less. Only a small portion of people will ever try to get 5+ years out of a device. Even the population trying to get 3 years will be two standard deviations out of the majority. Even if the battery is replaceable and the security patches keep coming.

Never make it without a ton of subsidies…

Read the room

I’m hoping that the important assets get sold to the Knowledge Fight podcast. They’d be the ones able to do the most good with them.

Except in this case, much like with Trump, His business and his person were deeply intertwined. So the account is a business asset. And as such, it is subject to being an asset of the company. Maybe he should have separated them at some point.

Egypt didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids. They used paid skilled workers. We have their living areas and pay receipts. You are working with outdated information. Cathedrals cover a 1700 year period and multiple labor strategies. I’m sure some were built with slaves but the majority weren’t and slavery was all but absent for the majority of the period unless you count serfdom, but serfs didn’t have the skills to build them so they don’t count.

Literally true.

Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Alexander

Sagan -> NDT -> ?

Fortunately we are alive to see the original and the successor. Unfortunately NDT has become a greatest hits jukebox and hasn’t produced anything new and noteworthy in a long time. I’m looking forward to the next generation. I’m definitely cautious of what the generation after that does.

A calculator for RFM

It’s not doctors that need to know. It’s the insurance companies. They wrote the policies that pay doctors based on the BMI metric. Until those policy changes happen nothing will change.

Insurance companies quietly control so much and most people don’t realize it.

Can’t wait for all the people that complained about the interview of Harris on 60 Minutes being edited to make her look less rambling to share this story.

I can’t wait because that would take forever. They probably won’t even know this ever happened. So they can’t post about it.